[cgbg]

The dirty little secret of a totalitarian society is that _everyone_ is an enemy of the state—no exceptions.

This is a lesson that often is only learned the hard way.

[Starboard]

I don’t foresee the Republicans, should they somehow stumble into getting control of the congress, doing anything about this. The Repukes don’t stand for anything and are totally worthless. They simply refuse to defend our liberties and our rights.

[beethovenfan]

The “state” - that’s what the Demo-rats mean when they refer to “our democracy’.
You and I don’t belong to it.

[GOPJ]

The dirty little secret of a totalitarian society is that _everyone_ is an enemy of the state—no exceptions.

Insightful... and right. Thanks cgbg

[AlaskaErik]

The dirty little secret of a totalitarian society is that _everyone_ is an enemy of the state—no exceptions.

This includes useful idiots and any threat, real or perceived, to the person who ultimately rises to the the top of the heap in a totalitarian dictatorship. Perfect examples of the latter are the night of the long knives in Germany and the late 30s purges in the USSR.